We have been asked over and over again by both children and parents if we would start an after school coding club. Considering the interest in all thing digital that children have and the current move by the DfE, The National Centre for Computing in Education and the Raspberry Pi Foundation to encourage primary schools to get more involved with all things software and hardware we decided to start a computer club.

Computer Club - open on Tuesday afternoon, 3:15 to 4:15

Coding is a very important part of the club and we will be making use of code club to enhance the skills of these children who are interest in computer coding. We know many children are using Scratch at home and want to improve those skills, but a few children have expressed interest in Python and other text based programming languages. We hope that we can progress forward with programming microcontrollers such as the BBC Micro:Bit and Raspberry Pi SBC. This is where coding and computer hardware crossover. 

One of the aims of our club is to give children a good understanding of computer hardware and how computer systems "bolt" together and work.  With that in mind we have a number of old working base units and laptops that children will strip down, re assemble and install a new operating system such as Linux or Flex OS, the free Google Chrome OS.

Below children tackle some real life hardware problems and in many of the case are able to fix the fault with just a little help from Mr Goodier.

We want children to be creative, promote our computer club and the school. The aim is to work like a digital marketing company, giving children the skill to produce promotional videos and art work.  Everything will be based online and available from any device, so if children wish, they can continue being creative when not in school.